thankful - Story 149048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering started before dawn. "Great," sighed Thomas, rolling over in bed. But his irritation quickly faded. His wife was pregnant, and the due date was getting closer.

He smiled, thinking of the tiny baby. He started humming as he brewed coffee. His heart felt full.

Later, he walked over to the construction site, offering the workers bottled water. He couldn't wait for his child to fill the space with new noises, a new life.

Emotion: thankful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.50 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.83

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thankful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 thankful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thankful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thankful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`happy`	0.493
`மகி`	0.487
`grateful`	0.461
`mutlu`	0.452
`feliz`	0.431

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.482
`😖`	-0.478
`😣`	-0.467
`😫`	-0.461
`worse`	-0.450